Liberal Arts Division

Geography

• How environment apparently controls human behavior - Ellen Semple, c. 1911
• Study of human ecology; adjustment of man to natural surroundings - Harland Barrows, 1923
• "The science concerned with the formulation of the laws governing the spatial distribution of certain features on the surface of the earth." - Fred Schaefer, 1953
• "To provide accurate, orderly, and rational description and interpretation of the variable character of the earth surface." - Richard Hartshorne, 1959
• "Geography is both science and art" - H.C. Darby, 1962
• "To understand the earth as the world of man" - J.O.M. Broek, 1965
• "Geography is fundamentally the regional or chorological science of the surface of the earth." - Robert E. Dickinson, 1969
• "Study of variations in phenomena from place to place." - Holt-Jensen, 1980
• "...concerned with the locational or spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena at the earth's surface" - Martin Kenzer, 1989
• "Geography is the study of earth as the home of people" - Yi-Fu Tuan, 1991
• "Geography is the study of the patterns and processes of human (built) and environmental (natural)landscapes, where landscapes comprise real (objective) and perceived (subjective) space." - Gregg Wassmansdorf, 1995
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